Painted in June 1890, weeks before Van Gogh's death, this is the village church of Auvers-sur-Oise, north-west of Paris. He described it as violet against "a sky of simple deep blue colour, pure cobalt", its windows like ultramarine blotches. The sunlit sand in front contrasts with the church itself, which sits in its own shadow.
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The path forks around the church, a motif Van Gogh used again in Wheat Field with Crows. A lone woman walks up the left-hand path.
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